Are we not capable of a little better?

[sb56637]

Yeah, it’s a rather nebulous term isn’t it?

@DB Custom

Only posting to stir up the dredge?

I tend to think of it more or less like that. But with that being said, I would strongly encourage everyone to please not publicly call out a user as a “troll”, because if they are a troll it will just egg them on, and if they aren’t really a troll it will offend them unnecessarily. Here’s a post I wrote up about the subject:

Re-post: How to deal with trolls

Hi everyone, I've received some private messages recently from concerned users about a few users that create threads with the apparent motive of stirring up arguments. By and large, the majority of BLF users are friendly, easygoing folks, and I'd like to use this opportunity to personally thank each and every one of them for being that way. But every once in a while somebody comes around with a rude or provocative post. I'd like to re-post the instructions on how to deal with such situations to…